Sindri Thor Jakobsson Explained

Birth Date:24 September 1991
Birth Place:Iceland

Sindri Thor Jakobsson (Icelandic: Sindri Þór Jakobsson; born 24 September 1991[1]) is a Norwegian swimmer of Icelandic origins. He specialises in the butterfly.

Career

Jakobsson is from Iceland, where he swam for (until 2012 called Ungmennafélagið Óðinn) in the Vestmannaeyjar,[2] later for Íþróttabandalag Reykjanesbæjar in Reykjanesbær.[3] [4] [5] In the mid-2000s he moved to Norway. After five years living in Bergen, where his club was,[6] he took Norwegian citizenship and renounced his Icelandic citizenship.[7] [8] he had transferred to in Oslo.[9]

At an all-ages national championship meet in 2003, he won four events: the 100 metre and 200 metre butterfly, the 400 metre freestyle and the 200 metre medley.[2] At the Icelandic national championships in 2008 he swam the 200 metre butterfly in 2.07.75 and in the 50 metres equalled his personal best time, 0.26.66;[10] [11] [12] In the 2009 Norwegian championships he won the 1500 metre[13] and 400 metre butterfly.[4]

In April 2012 Jakobsson was one of two team-mates sharing a room with Alexander Dale Oen at a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona, who discovered him dead in the bathroom;[14] [15] [16] both withdrew from swimming for several months.[17] [18]

At the 2012 European Aquatics Championships he set a Norwegian record of 2.00.96 for the 200 metre butterfly, breaking his own previous record by 24 hundredths of a second.[19] At the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships he set a Norwegian record of 52.34 seconds for the 100 metre butterfly, breaking his own previous record of 53.29 seconds;[20] he failed by three hundredths of a second to equal Aleksander Hetland's Norwegian record of 23.47 seconds for the 50 metre butterfly.[21] At the 2014 European Aquatics Championships, for which he was selected despite not having technically qualified,[22] he again broke his own previous Norwegian record for the 200 metre butterfly, with a time of 1.59.80.[23] [24] At the 2015 European Short Course Swimming Championships he broke his own Norwegian record for the 100 metre butterfly with a time of 51.99 seconds,[25] and broke it again with 51.77 seconds in the semi-finals.[26] He also set a new Norwegian record in the 200 metre medley, 1.56.15.[27] In 2016 he won 13 gold medals, seven individual, at the Norwegian Short Course Championships,[9] and again set a new record for the 200 metre butterfly, 1.58.85, at the Bergen Swim Festival.[28] [29]

Jakobsson set a Norwegian senior record of 1.58.93 in the 200 metre butterfly at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships,[30] [31] but did not qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In October 2016 he announced his retirement on Facebook.[32]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sindri Thor Jakobsson . Eurosport . 2 May 2017 .
  2. News: Sindri Þór Jakobsson . . 29 June 2003 . Icelandic .
  3. News: Tvöfalt piltamet hjá Sindra . Keflavík.is . 11 July 2008 . Icelandic .
  4. News: Efnilegasti sundmaðurinn . Bæjarins besta . 14 July 2009 . Icelandic .
  5. News: Eyþór Sæmundsson . Sundið á góðu skriði í Reykjanesbæ . . 4 December 2013 . Icelandic .
  6. Web site: Sindri Thor Jakobsson . Bergensvømmerne.no . 2 May 2017 . Norwegian .
  7. News: Ívar Benediktsson . Sindri er orðinn norskur . Morgunblaðið . 2 September 2010 . Icelandic .
  8. News: Sund: Sindri Þór orðinn Norðmaður . . 2 September 2010 . Icelandic .
  9. News: Solfrid Therese Nordbakk . Sindri var helt 'konge' i svømme-NM . . 15 March 2016 . Norwegian .
  10. News: Sindri Þór setti Íslandsmet í 200 metra flugsundi . Bæjarins besta . 31 July 2008 . Icelandic .
  11. News: Sindri Þór Jakobsson, ÍRB, setti Íslandsmet . Víkurfréttir . 1 August 2008 . Icelandic .
  12. News: Sindri Þór Jakobsson, ÍRB, setti Íslandsmet . Vísir . . 1 August 2008 . Icelandic .
  13. News: Sindri Þór norskur meistari í 1500m skriðsundi . Víkurfréttir . 13 July 2009 . Icelandic .
  14. News: Per Opsahl . Forteller om marerittet da de fant Dale Oen livløs . . 22 December 2012 . Norwegian .
  15. News: Det helt ufattelige på rom 227 . . 22 December 2012 . Norwegian .
  16. News: Axel Pileby . Fann Dale Oen död - berättar om händelsen . . 22 December 2012 . Swedish .
  17. News: Sindre Vik Helgheim . De fant Alexander Dale Oen død . . 22 December 2012 . Norwegian .
  18. Web site: Rokur . Sindri Jakobsson back on track after a traumatic year . Swimmer's Daily . 22 April 2013 .
  19. News: Jakobsson satte norsk rekord på 200 m butterfly . . . 23 May 2012 . Norwegian .
  20. News: Rekordstart for Jakobsson . . NTB . 12 December 2013 . Norwegian .
  21. News: Jakobsson nær norsk rekord i svømme-EM . . NTB . 15 December 2013 . Norwegian .
  22. News: Trond Roger Nydal . Får Berlin-tur uten å ha klart kravet . Bergensavisen . 18 June 2014 . Norwegian .
  23. News: Elisabeth De Lange Gjesdal . Ny norsk rekord . . 20 August 2014 . Norwegian .
  24. News: Lavrans Solli makes Euro final after record swim . NTB . . Norway . 21 August 2014 .
  25. News: Bergenser satte ny norsk rekord . . 2 December 2015 . Norwegian .
  26. News: Magnus Wikan . 'Valget sto mellom å flytte fra Bergen eller legge opp' . Aftenposten . 2 December 2015 . Norwegian .
  27. News: Ny rekord for Sindri Thor Jakobsson . NRK . 4 December 2015 . Norwegian .
  28. News: 'Ser vi deg i OL?' 'Ja, det gjør du!' . . 28 May 2016 . video . Norwegian .
  29. News: Sander Englund Smørdal . Denne gjengens superallianse gjør veien til OL-finale tøffere for Svømme-Henrik . TV 2 . 31 May 2016 . Norwegian .
  30. News: Jakobsson til semifinale i svømme-EM . . NTB . 18 May 2016 . Norwegian .
  31. Web site: Ingrid Haslev Anmarkrud . Oppsummering-EM i svømming i London . . 22 May 2016 . Norwegian .
  32. News: Sindri Thor Jakobsson legger opp . Simma.nu . 24 October 2016 . Norwegian .

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